MORE YEARS ARE BACK THE CULTURE OF HOME PLANTS in Russia has been associated with many grandmothers' apartments and government premises - dried palm trees in a kindergarten and a polyclinic or seedlings in plastic jars of sour cream, which have seized window sills. But, as is often the case, fashion is able to change course overnight: today, home plants are the pride of those who are called millennials.

"You're just like my mom!" - the offended girlfriend told me a few years ago, and I, naturally, objected something in the spirit of “Don't drag your mom in, I have never seen her and can’t be like her in any way”. Indeed, what can be common between me and a middle-aged woman with two children who works in a very responsible job and lives two thousand kilometers from me?

Alexandra Savina On Saturday, Channel One showed the latest edition of the Ice Age program - a show in which celebrities perform on ice together with famous figure skaters. There would be no more talk about the program if it were not for the release of the figure skater Tatiana Navka and the actor Andrei Burkovsky. A couple in suits of concentration camp prisoners showed a number inspired by the film "Life is Beautiful" by Roberto Benigni.

TEXT: Alyona Belaya Definitely, one of the most talked about moments at the end of the fashion weeks will be the story of how the models Gigi Hadid in her own Instagram account hinted pretty thickly, say, is it not big. Gigi, in turn, did not lose her head and answered with an open letter: "I know that it is not Thumbelina, and what?

Daria Tatarkov The aphorism “learning is never too late” is attributed to Quintilian, the rhetorician of the Roman Empire who lived about two thousand years ago. Nowadays, no one is surprised that common truths, understandable even to our ancestors in the distant past, are still being questioned. Mankind, of course, goes through self-improvement, but some things, the most banal ones, have to be pronounced from time to time.

Text: Helena Hackett Lesha was one of the first people I met when I moved to work in Moscow. He had a wide smile — too wide for his face — and palms too big for his hands. He fascinated me from the first day that we spent in the painful attempts to communicate on our mutually monstrous ruglish.

Masha Vorslav Cosmetics brands, which help designers to bring their ideas to mind at shows, periodically arrange presentations of trends for journalists and bloggers. These are private events that are carefully prepared for: MAC alone, for example, works on at least 14 fashion weeks - in addition to the “big four” (New York, London, Paris and Milan).

Text: Rita Zubatova The international press often associates British fashion with the houses Burberry Prorsum and Vivienne Westwood, and the selection of trends from London includes only tartan, tweed and trench coats. Meanwhile, it is becoming increasingly difficult to meet elegant guys in three-piece suits and girls in fitted raincoats on the streets of the city.

Yesterday, Gilles Zander left the brand name, arguing that the third time was a diamond: it is already clear that the designer is unlikely to return to Jil Sander or to the design as such. Wonderzine editor Lisa Kologreeva talks about whether designer’s care means that the era of minimalism has come to an end. Let's start with the story.

Pictures of Newton and Guy Burden. Young Brooke Shields, intriguing by the statement that between her and her jeans Calvin Klein "nothing." Sadomasochistic aesthetics in the works of Thierry Mugler. Tom Ford's porn and fashion porn by Terry Richardson. Girls in advertising campaigns American Apparel, finally.

Margarita Virov This autumn will be remembered to us not only by inventing hundreds of eyebrow styling options, but also by a real craze on cosmetics, to which a celebrity had a hand. Everyone continues to discuss contour sticks released under the name of Kim Kardashian, the expected furor was made by the Fenty cosmetic line, and Victoria Beckham makes a second, terribly expensive and very beautiful collection for Estee Lauder.

Facebook has a function On This Day ("This Day") - on a separate page shows the posts that you wrote a few years ago, the people with whom you made friends, and other nostalgic information. If you used it at least once, you probably noticed how much our behavior on the social network differed from today.

Today, Alla Borisovna Pugacheva's anniversary is a holiday of such magnitude that they launched her 12-series biopic on Channel One. The expert and connoisseur of the Russian variety art Bulat Latypov studied the biography of Alla Borisovna and came to the conclusion that the main Russian singer, in addition to all her achievements, throughout the career set an example of independence and free-thinking to her compatriots.

Margarita Virova September's secular news takes place under the sign of fatmaking: first, the Internet long discussed Rihanna’s new weight (which, to our joy, gives the offenders a rebuff), and then everyone attacked Kanye West - and many Western Internet media have already released columns about why and fans and haters of the artist better quickly stop doing it.

Olga Lukinskaya Those who have been to Barcelona for the new year, could not help but pay attention to the figures of kaganers sold in every souvenir shop - little men squatting without pants and celebrating a great need (actually, the word caganer is translated as "popping"). For tourists from Russia, they evoke mixed feelings - from the sensation of a dirty joke to disgust; having only lived in Catalonia for several years, I thought that now I perceive these toys quite calmly.

"Alice, be sure to write about it! This is a secret of cleaning domestic violence: few people dare to talk about it out loud," the editor-in-chief advised me when I honestly answered why it had disappeared from the radar for six months and what happened to me all this time. I know that many of my friends will be surprised by my confession, many may decide that I am exaggerating.

The most discussed beauty news of recent weeks has been the mysterious disappearance of a male model from the NYX Sugar Trip promotional materials. This caused a noticeable outrage of Russian beauty bloggers and fans of the brand. We understand why the Russian divisions of the brands are afraid of made-up men, while the employees of the head offices are struggling to increase the popularity of men's makeup.

“Muscovites staged a hustle in the H & M store”, “A slaughter in the H & M store in London”, “A thousand and a half people take the H & M flagship store in Paris by storm” - the news chronicle, dated November 5, 2015, more resembles reports from the site of hostilities or scenes from dystopia. On this day, the Balmain x H & M collection is on sale.

Text: Anna Aristova The news of the death of Karl Lagerfeld swept thunder through the media and social networks, stopping at the threshold of the famous boutique on Cambon Street, where fans bring white roses from yesterday. Rumors about the designer's illness appeared as early as January, when Karl unexpectedly did not go out to everyone after the couture Chanel show, then representatives of the house explained that he was just tired.

Fashion editor Wonderzine went to Berlin to attend Fashion Week, the Bread & Butter and Premium trade show, and figure out how they differ from dozens of others. After thinking about the impressions, Rita tells that Berlin fashion is so organically woven into a free, strange, beautiful and ugly city that it even fades into the background.